Report: PS4 Heavily Integrated With Gaikai, YouTube, Social Networks

The new PlayStation also will allow players to share achievements on social networks through smoother links to Facebook or Twitter, while also enabling aspects such as sharing footage of game play online through YouTube, people familiar with Sony’s plans said. Sony’s new console may also allow users to compete against others using different hardware, such as smartphones and other portable devices

I'm curious of what kind of compression used that could inhibit the visual quality PS3 games are known for.

then again, they could always cache a good portion of the game to the HDD to compensate. We will know more on the 20th.

edit: @kwiet... when it comes to video/audio compression, there are things like silverlight and other codecs that can do a really good job of compress/decompress on the fly. But then again a movie is a linear format. Meaning it plays from beginning to end with no variables in what happens as it plays.

Games are very different with constant variables to have to accommodate for.

"The new PlayStation also will allow players to share achievements on social networks through smoother links to Facebook or Twitter, while also enabling aspects such as sharing footage of game play online through YouTube, people familiar with Sony’s plans said. Sony’s new console may also allow users to compete against others using different hardware, such as smartphones and other portable devices, those people said."

If this is true then it will be great!

PS4 will be cheaper I guess. PS3 fat has BC hardware with PS2. Now its got Gaikai to do that.

I'm leaning myself out of the window here and say there won't be any PS3 BC, neither through Gaikai (this just doesn't work, people...) nor otherwise.

But what I still believe is, it will be possible to stream PS4 games (advanced remote play). Well, we'll see if I'd be the jerk Wed night. LOL.

But, what I'm curious is, if we also have advanced cross play, what was mentioned there. Like, online play across Vita, PS3 and PS4. And even safe games across the cloud and backporting of some of the PS4 features to the PS3 - like multi login, etc. Making this PlayStation "platform" not just a "device". Basically across multiple devices.

Remote play from PS4 to any device is possible if they put a HW decoder into the device and maybe use Gaikai's advanced encoders to do so. While streaming from a PS3 (a la remote play) only worked with some titles. I'd expect ALL PS4 games to support this, not just a handful.

BTW: Is nobody surprised this would actually fall inline with Sony's registration of it's "EyePad", basically a tabled with game controls?

The one thing should understand and I hope will is that most of this WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE DAY 1.

That's always the problem with gamers and news like this, they get so hyped up expecting these features day 1 and then bash the companies endlessly until the features are released, and then they bash the companies for taking too long to implement them. THIS STUFF TAKES TIME!

@Lvl_up_gamer I agree. Not everyone can use streaming services like \Gaikai, especially in your case as well as not all places have decent broadband,like rural areas. Heck I know a few people who have consoles not connected to internet. We should get an optional "Premium Deluxe " model with Cell/Rsx built in for ps3 compatibility for those will to pay for that...

Cache a good portion of a video stream to the hard drive? Otherwise what exactly will they cache to the hard drive? The PS4 if running AMD hardware as the rumors suggest will not be able to run PS3 games in any form, so they'll have to streams or rewritten/ported just like PS2 HD classics or any game not originally developed for the PS3.

Seriously they can divide up parts of a cloud game by putting parts of it on our local ps4's harddrive? How is that possible? Maybe for a movie or audio, but how will this work for an interactive game? Please tell me more as I am ezxcited for what this could also mean for ps3 owners. If this IS possible, then maybe ps3 owners can also play ps4 games via gaikai if portions of the game will save on the harddrive (which could significantly reduce the amount of bandwidth speed needed to be streamed per second...which also means that it MIGHT be able to stream almost lag-free even on low (yet still broadband) connections. Hmm, i'm no techy, but if i'm wrong, someone please explain the possibilities this may or may not have. Thank you.

"Now if they can improve somes features or add feature, it would be great. Like voice chat, group of friend, an OS improve and very fluid, a PS Store more fluid and fast" They NEED voice group chat, this is a needed feature. I will be disapointed if they dont, and so will many

Good question. It could be a tier pricing. I see PS+ moving to a tiered pricing setup. Different packages for different tastes. My main concern is that Sony will keep online play free and have basic features like x-game chat and a small chunk of cloud storage.

Well, another not so popular opinion, but I also believe Gaikai will seize to exist. I'm guessing it will be completely integrated into the Sony Entertainment Network. I could imagine, some business customers will stay on until contracts expire. But other than that, I don't see that survive as and autonomous entity. Streaming games is not profitable. The tech however is very useful.

From this now I am starting to realize what the patent Sony applied for, to read the purchased disk version, is really for. I am start to think the Gaikai service will give the user the option to stream the game live by popping in the disk from PS3 and maybe even the PS4. Or somehow use the tandem in some type of way. I guess that is the reason why the patent stated it needed to see if it was an official purchased game or a used game, maybe to determine how you receive the content. Either way this makes the 20th far more interesting.

well hopefully there will be and option to load some of the game on to your HDD or some way of pre-loading the game to provide a smother experience. i will be asking my parents to upgrade internet though because we have so many wireless devices in the house i get disconnected all the time

Explain to me how its different now? Xbox 360 does all this with out a service just an app store.

It'll be better integrated on the PS4 sure but Sony's doing what MS has been doing this gen. It's the same thing.

So yeah, it is integrating all the things that people have been hating the Xbox for plus more. There's nothing wrong with it its called getting with the times. As long as Sony creates new games then its fine.

@Below you know what I'm talking about. Sony is getting its entertainment apps happening in full force come next gen. Sony is doing what MS is now with the entertainment apps/social experiences just fully realized now on the PS4.

Just because Microsoft advertised their entertainment packages doesn't mean they switched focus from gaming. When the 720 comes out, they should have ample first party titles for release because they've had extra time, at the same time they've managed to give 360 owners the AAA blockbuster titles that they bought their 360's for in the first place.

I realize this place is the Sony Defense Force, but people need to realize the double standard they have for their company of preference.

When Microsoft and Nintendo offer options for motion controls for casual they are horrible, when Sony does it with Move, they are great.

When Microsoft has apps and advertises entertainment they are losing focus, when Sony does it, it's awesome?

I have my PS3 and Vita already set up with Facebook, Youtube and Twitter where applicable, from trophy updates on Facebook to PixelJunk 4AM Live Stream updates on Twitter to uploading footage directly to Youtube.

I like the integration and I'm glad it's taking it further and, we can only hope, more games make use of it.